Archives: People

Phaedra has 20 years of STM publishing experience managing high-impact journals in science and medicine. She presently  serves as Executive Editor for the Aesthetic Surgery Journal and ASJ Open Forum. She lectures and authors on social media, AI, publication ethics, altmetrics, predatory publishing, and open access. She is immediate past co-director of WAME, a member of COPE, and ISMTE, and a Gold Level Altmetric Ambassador.

Lauren Kane is CEO of BioOne, the nonprofit collaborative and content aggregator for more than 150 scientific societies, museums, research organizations, and independent presses across the world. She has held this role since 2022, leading an ambitious strategic agenda that includes the creation of new Open Access pathways and the challenge of scaling with equity, sustainability, and research integrity in mind. 

With more than two decades of experience in scholarly communications, Lauren began her career at Blackwell Publishing before joining BioOne in the organization’s early growth years. She later went on to hold leadership roles at both Delta Think and Morressier, broadening her experience across the scholarly ecosystem.

Lauren proudly served on the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Board of Directors from 2017-2022, and was elected President of the Society for a 2020-2021 term. She is a frequent industry speaker and contributor, advocating for collective impact approaches to advance scholarship and discovery. 

Lauren holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of New Hampshire.

Since June 2017 Alison has been CEO of PLOS, an organization dedicated to ensuring that research is discoverable, accessible and useable  – and to continuing to push the boundaries of “open” in service of a truly equitable system of scientific knowledge and understanding.

Prior to PLOS, Alison served as Director of the University of California Press and as Executive Vice President at SAGE Publications. Her 30 years in the publishing industry also include leadership positions at Blackwell Publishers and Taylor & Francis.

Alison is a frequent speaker at industry meetings, writes for the Scholarly Kitchen blog, and serves on the Board of SSP and the Center for Open Science. In the past, Alison has also served on the Board of ALPSP, the Scientific Publications Committee and the Open Science Committee of the American Heart Association; the Executive Council of the PSP Division of the American Association of Publishers; and as Co-Chair of the Dean’s Leadership Council at California State University, Channel Islands.

Brooks Hanson serves as the Executive Vice President for Science for the American Geophysical Union (AGU).  

He’s responsible for overseeing AGU’s publications, meetings, and ethics programs and Thriving Earth Exchange and coordinating science activities across these. He served previously as Sr. Vice President for Publications at AGU, responsible for AGU’s portfolio of many books and 20 journals and their editorial operations, helping set overall editorial policies, and leading future developments. 

Before arriving at AGU, he served as the Deputy Editor for Physical Sciences at Science and earlier as an editor at Science. Brooks has a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA and held a post-doctoral appointment at the Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution. His main areas or research and publications span the tectonics of the western U.S., metamorphic petrology, modeling magmatic and hydrothermal processes, and on scholarly publishing.

He is a fellow of the Geological Society of American and Mineralogical Society of America.

Mercè Crosas is the University Research Data Management Officer, with Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT), and Chief Data Science and Technology Officer at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS).

In her role at HUIT, Dr. Crosas provides leadership to mature Harvard’s data management and governance practices. She works in close collaboration with key constituencies in Research,  Information Technology, and the Library to coordinate support for the data lifecycle and guide university policy, process, and procedures for research data. Dr. Crosas brings to this role a wealth of experience in data management architecture and international community data standards as well as the vision to make data more accessible for research while preserving privacy. She co-leads the Harvard Data Commons.

At IQSS, Dr. Crosas guides the vision and strategic direction of data sharing and data analysis projects developed at the Institute. She co-leads the Dataverse project, an open source software platform for sharing and archiving research data, since 2006. She now, also co-leads OpenDP, and open-source differential privacy platform,  the Consilience tool for text analysis, the DataTags project for sharing sensitive data, and the Open Source Software Health Index project. She supervises the user experience,  data curation, and data science services teams.

In the last ten years, Dr. Crosas has been PI and co-PI of multiple research grants and collaborations related to data privacy, data provenance, research reproducibility, and data sharing in social science, biomedicine, and astronomy. She is part of numerous committees and working groups focused on research data management, data citation, and data standards, and is a co-author of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles as well as the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles.

Before re-joining Harvard in 2004, Dr. Crosas worked for six years in the educational software and biotech industries, initially as a software developer, and subsequently as director of the software development team. She contributed to the development of lab information management systems (LIMS) for SNP discovery and genotyping and mass spectrometry. Before that, she spent six years at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, first as a pre-doctoral fellow for her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Rice University, and later as a post-doctoral fellow, researcher, and software engineer with the Radioastronomy division. There she worked on Monte Carlo simulations of radiative transfer in evolved stars and contributed to the software for the Submillimeter Array interferometer. She earned a B.S. in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

Shelley Stall is the Vice President, Open Science Leadership for the American Geophysical Union’s Data Leadership Program. She works with AGU’s members, their organizations, and the broader research community to improve data and digital object practices with the ultimate goal of elevating how research data is managed and valued. Better data management results in better science.

Shelley’s recent work includes the Enabling FAIR Data project (https://copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/) engaging over 300 stakeholders in the Earth, space, and environmental sciences to make data open and FAIR targeting the publishing and repository communities to change practices by no longer archiving data in the supplemental information of a paper but instead depositing the data supporting the research into a trusted repository where it can be discovered, managed, and preserved.

 

Brett Rubinstein is the Chief Commercial Officer of GeoScienceWorld, a nonprofit collaborative and comprehensive resource for research and communications in the Earth Sciences. 

At GSW Brett is responsible for global sales and marketing, business development, as well as content strategy and acquisition including GSW’s recently launched Open Access publishing program.

Brett has over 15 of experience in STM Publishing previously leading commercial teams at IOP Publishing and Springer.

Dr. Arthur Lupia is Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation. In that capacity, he serves as head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE). He also serves the Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and as co-chair of the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Subcommittee on Open Science. Prior to arriving at NSF, he served as Chairperson of the Board for the Center for Open Science, as chair of the National Academies Roundtable on the Communication and Use of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and on numerous scientific advisory boards.

Dr. Lupia’s research and related public work examines processes, principles, and factors that guide decision-making and learning. His efforts clarify how people make decisions, and choose what to believe, when they lack information or face adverse circumstances. Lupia draws from mixes of mathematics, statistics, neuroscience, economics, psychology and other scientific disciplines to advance these topics. His work on civic competence, information processing, how voters learn and science communication has influenced scholarly practice, public policy, and classroom teaching in many countries.

Dr. Lupia has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and is a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of Rochester and his social science PhD at the California Institute of Technology.

Henning Schoenenberger runs a global Data Development department at Springer Nature, finding cutting-edge responses to key problems in the research and library communities in areas such as access, analytics and machine-learning as well as content and data delivery models and discovery.

Erik-Jan has more than 20 years of experience in the media and information industry. He previously worked as VP Sales EMEA at media and information giant Thomson Reuters’s scientific scholarly research division and as Regional Director (Germany and Eastern Europe) for scientific information company Wolters Kluwer Health.

He is credited for contributing to the success of scientific research literature curation company 1Science (now part of Elsevier) and German pharmaceutical business intelligence company INSIGHT Health. Erik-Jan speaks fluent Dutch, English, French and German.